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Study Of The Response Of The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter To Muons Produced In Sqrt(s) = 7 Tev Proton-proton Collisions At The LHC
(Physics, 2011-10-11)
The purpose of this study is to verify the inter-calibration of the cells and uniformity of the Tile Calorimeter (TileCal) detector in the ATLAS experiment at CERN. The response using muons produced in proton-proton ...
Optimization Of Hydrogel System For Complex Wound Healing
(Biomedical Engineering, 2011-10-11)
Various conventional therapies and preventive measures have been developed and used for treating complex wounds; however, patients with complex wounds still develop wound infection and consist of delayed wound healing. ...
The 2008 Short Sale Ban: Did We Sell Price Discovery Short
(Finance & Real Estate, 2010-07-19)
This dissertation investigates the impact of a short sale ban on the stock market and the options market and the interrelation between the two markets during the US financial crisis of 2008. The first essay focuses on the ...
Performing Masculinity And Reconciling Class In The American West: British Gentlemen Hunters And Their Travel Accounts, 1865-1914
(History, 2011-03-03)
This dissertation investigates accounts by British gentlemen of the upper-middle and upper class, whose hunting narratives in the Western United States in the second half of the nineteenth century reveal their sentiments ...
High Order DNS For Late Flow Transition
(Mathematics, 2012-07-25)
In this report, a new high order scheme for boundary points is introduced when calculating the derivative of smooth functions by Compact Scheme. The primitive function reconstruction method of ENO schemes is applied to ...
Building Bayesian Network Based Expert Systems From Rules
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-11-01)
Combining expert knowledge and user explanation with automated reasoning in domains with uncertain information poses significant challenges in terms of representation and reasoning mechanisms. In particular, reasoning ...
Design And Analysis Of Application Architecture For Opportunistic Networks Using Ad Hoc Wi-Fi
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-03-03)
In recent years, the number of smartphone users has increased by many folds. In fact, it is estimated to reach 100 million by 2013. Current generation of smartphones has better storage, battery, computing capabilities and ...
Sex, War And Disease: The Effects Of Infection On Horn Size And Intra-sexual Competition In The Broad-horned Flour Beetle, Gnathocerus cornutus
(Biology, 2010-03-03)
Sexual selection is widely used to explain the evolution of mating systems where most often it is manifest as the competition among males for access to females. This competition takes the form of direct male-male interactions ...
Reactive Control Composition For Mobile Manipulators
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2010-07-19)
A mobile manipulator is a manipulator mounted on a mobile platform. Due to this combination it has increased mobility compared to a fixed manipulator and increased dexterity compared to a mobile platform. At the same time ...